Coffey

The Meltdown was The Truth though when Wrath first started doing it on WCW. I remember marking out pretty hard for that move & his new undefeated streak until he got dominated by Kevin Nash in his build for Goldberg at Starrcade lmao.

Everyone in Ring of Honor is available. There's the "forbidden door" thing with companies like Impact & New Japan. There's a whole bunch of people out there available that would be big, cool surprises... and they bring in Jay Lethal? Swing and a miss. PPV was good. A lot more good than bad. The first two matches were really good. Third match was good. Main event was good. Kinda slow & dragging in the middle of the card which is also a problem with a four hour show. Cut out some of that shit, shave a few minutes off some of the matches & you have a nice 3-hour tight show.

Sammy, Santana & Ortiz are all three so freakin' good & they're saddled with both Jericho & Hager. The sooner they get away from them, the better. Those three are freakin' stars.

And it ends with a fucking roll-up to a dead crowd. Woof.

This shit going way too long and they're trying to do way too much.

They didn't have a chance to breathe early either. The first three matches were exhausting to me at home watching, so I imagine in the arena, they gotta cooldown before Punk & Hangman. Both of which will probably be 20 minutes each or more. Feels like Britt/Tay are getting a semi-tired crowd.

Andrade might be the biggest AEW signing bust so far. Ton of potential but since coming in, it hasn't worked out at all. His debut was lackluster & he just kind of stayed there ever since.

The Jungle Boy story was good. The elbow through the table looked awesome & could replace the Joey Janella spot in the Dynamite intro if Joey leaves AEW. But that match was, to me, not up to the standard set by the rest of the card thus far.

I would love to see Okada or Bray Wyatt show up tonight. This street fight has kind of lost me, to be honest. EDIT: This match stinks. Feels really out of place but I get doing a street fight to be different from everything else.

That was an awkward finish.

Welp, if anyone was gonna follow the opener, FTR/Lucha Bros was it. Goodness.

I would hate to be whomever has to follow that!

Five stars. I don't give a fuck. I'm marking out.

This Darby/MJF match has blown my expectations out of the freakin' water. This has been insanely awesome.

I didn't know MJF had that in his game tbh.

AEW is the first wrestling promotion since ECW where I actually want to support them. Goodwill toward the fans goes a long way. I've purchased some other PPVs since ECW obviously but the majority of AEW PPVs thus far have been must-see TV. Punk/Kingston will be interesting to me because I feel like everything that those two do the best happens outside of the bell-to-bell parts of wrestling. I'm really excited for FTR Vs. Lucha Bros. I think Danielson/Miro might be MOTN but I'm not writing off Page/Omega. I'm ready for Jericho to leave.

Dusty himself did that promo & still had a ton of naysayers. Still to this day has a lot of naysayers. In-ring, as a promo (due to his lisp) & as the booker. I totally get your point though. Some people are so blinded by their biases, that when something is better they won't acknowledge it. I am probably guilty of this myself. Hell, a lot of us probably are.

Brodie Lee was Big E's best friend, from what I understand... and how AEW treated his passing, compared to WWE acknowledgement is a night & day difference. It wouldn't surprise me. That's even before you to get what they've done w/ a lot of Xavier's friends like Tyler Breeze or how WWE treated Kofi Kingston or a number of other things. Hell, the New Day Podcast, even. If they were in AEW, they can do their podcast, they can do Twitch, they don't have to worry about being exploited, they earn their own money that they get to keep & they're back working with a lot of their friends. Plus AEW doesn't have the history of racism & isn't in a working deal with Saudi Arabia, nor are they a publicly traded company that cuts people each quarter just to look better to non-wrestling fan shareholders. To be completely 100% honest, I have zero idea why ANYONE would choose WWE over AEW right now. WWE can't even claim to be where the money is at anymore. The only negative about AEW right now is that their roster is getting so big, there's not enough room/time for everyone.

WALTER should be a top guy somewhere. He's one of the best in the world right now. Occasionally get just a match on NXT seems insane to me.

What a great read. Got me emotional. I saw the link on Reddit and was coming here to post it too.

This could pertain to so many different things but yeah, for the most part, I almost always agreed with Bret. At least as it pertained to pro-wrestling opinions. I feel the biggest back-and-forth would be over Ric Flair but I even feel like that after the Plane Ride from Hell Dark Side of the Ring episode might have a few people even potentially having their opinions swayed.

Legitimately one of the first things I thought when I saw his name on the list was "they probably asked him to dance & he said no."

You know, I was thinking... the week-to-week shows as a whole might be awful. However, at the end of the year, if you were just making like a WWE 2021 compilation tape? There would be a ton of good stuff on there. Especially if you included stuff that wasn't just matches, like the stuff between Brock & Roman with Heyman.

This is such a tough & touchy subject too. Mental health & well-being in our country is still honestly really lackluster & comes with a lot of stereotypes & negative connotations. I like to think that we're turning a corner & coming around on it - myself included. I have made insensitive comments about it as well, even here on PWO in posts that I believe were deleted by moderators when I got into it with MoS over the way I careless expressed an opinion with over-the-top language. I was wrong, he was right & I overreacted due to pride & getting called out. And that was just like a couple months ago. I like to think people like Eddie Kingston coming out & speaking about mental health is a positive thing that will lead to more heading in the right direction. Or even more recently with C.M. Punk saying that if people need help, ask for it & get it. There's nothing wrong with needing help. On the other side of the coin, I'm already seeing & reading comments online - not just from the wrestling communities that I frequent - how people are starting to use mental health as an "excuse" & that they think it's bullshit. I've already seen it about Nia Jax. And I've been reading it a lot the last month or so over Ben Simmons of the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA in particular. They seem to think that now whenever shit hits the fan that a celebrity can just claim being mentally unwell like it's some sort of get out of jail free card or something. Which, even if that were true, which I don't believe it is, it wouldn't be worth throwing out all the actual mental health issues that others have to try to play a "got'cha!" against some famous person. I've seen it even be likened to when a celebrity adulterer used to claim being addicted to sex & checking into sex rehab to try to save their marriages. People will really jump through some hoops to try to discredit people they've never actually met because they don't like their answer to how they're dealing with something. It's kind of crazy. Social media has really compounded this issue exponentially too. You also see it now with how words or phrases like "woke" or "cancel culture" are being vilified. Or politically, how they've turned the words socialism & communism into weapons where they can just try to tie people to those words to discredit them. We see it with the pandemic & vaccinations pretty much daily at this point.

THROW IT UP!